Your Highness is the ultimate ‘stoner’ movie. The writers were likely stoned when they wrote the ‘script’. The director and actors were probably stoned when they shot the film. And as the title of the film suggests, you most definitely have to be stoned (or 8 years old, probably both) to find it funny. Sadly for read more

The world must really be coming to an end soon because — I can’t believe I am saying this– Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part II is GOOD. How the Hogwarts is this possible? I have followed the films from the very beginning and read 2 of the 4 books (the first and third), primarily out of read more

I’m supposed to be reading all the books I borrowed from the university library in preparation for my novel, but I couldn’t help myself. My physical bookshelves are just about out of space, crammed with books I bought over the last couple of years but haven’t yet started reading, so naturally I went and bought read more

Here we go, my worst 10 films of 2014. I saw a lot of terrible movies, but none worse than these 10. As with previous years, this list is based on my ratings at the time of review, and I made it extra easy for myself this year because there are exactly 10 films I read more

Daily Archives: January 13, 2010

The 2010 Golden Globes are on this Sunday 17th of January and it’s time to put down some predictions.*

Here are the nominees, with my pick in bold. Seeing I haven’t seen a lot of these films, a lot of these are gut instincts and common predictability.

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA:

“Avatar“
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire”
“Up in the Air”

Comment: Just when you thought James Cameron’s head can’t get any bigger, I have a feeling his latest blockbuster Avatar is going to do exceptionally well. Not Titanic well, but well nonetheless. To be fair, Avatar, while not a great ‘film’ from many perspectives, is a pretty groundbreaking and entertaining piece of cinema.

Comment: I haven’t seen this movie yet, but by all accounts Sadibe puts in a dynamite performance, and I reckon there will be an inclination to give it to the actress in the hard-hitting drama this year. Mulligan is the dark horse, and man I sure hope Bullock doesn’t win (though she probably will).

Comments: Damon has a chance especially if he doesn’t win best actor but Waltz was just so bloody terrific in Inglourious Basterds that it just has to go to him, as good as Stanley Tucci was in The Lovely Bones.

The moral of the story is: don’t buy a book you can’t look inside before you pay.

I was on a literary shopping spree in Taiwan’s 24-hour book store, Eslite (I’m going to blog this place soon), picking up all the English book specials I could find. Just as I was about to head to the counter, I see this neatly wrapped book (in clear plastic) called A Life at Work by Thomas Moore.

‘The joy of discovering what you were born to do’, the cover says. Oh my goodness, I exclaim silently. As as person torn between leaving a financially stable job he doesn’t really like and starting over in a risky field he loves, I took it as a sign.